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chewing gum with chlorophyll right?:D

Ha, Olav! Great player, (a lefty:love:). Funny, though, that he blurts out that he is no longer a professional. Has always been a perennial talent and played several years in Germany. Since this season he has been playing for my old club in Belgium which I was a member of for about six years...

Not just topspin but usually just about all the BH balls they should learn, like pushing, blocks, flipping (chiquita), etc...they can't do these or rather, not well enough and they (whether supported by a coach or not, which you yourself agree to above) reach for technical equipment. And then...

Yeah Danny, I know him but not personally of course. Wonderful player but is certainly not a classically trained table tennis player and most probably learned to play ping-pong in his garage and perfected himself with anti or anything other rubber. I am pretty sure Danny used anti because of...

Mmmm, I was in Birmingham in 1977, Bern in 80 (with J. Hilton...🥲), Paris in 88 and the World Cup in Rotterdam in 2011. In between, I saw many international matches of the national team, European meetings with Villette Charleroi, demonstrations, etc...etc...so I have seen and met quite a lot...

Hahaha no, I don't know anyone who wanted to be a defender. In my time, everyone wanted to be JM Saive, Waldner, Gatien or Samsonov. Now they want to be Truls, FZN, Ma Long, Gauzy or one of the Lebruns.

Do me a favour and ask her why she started playing with these rubbers back then? Ask her! Will you?

All the pip players I know in table tennis since 1976 once started with normal reverse rubbers. All tell the same thing, because certain strokes did not succeed they switched to other technical equipment and got better with it. Some even improved a lot through training and at all levels. Which...

I couldn't choose!;)

1. Jan-Ove Waldner 2. Xu Xin 3. Jean-Michel Saive 4. Zhang Jike 5. Ma long 6. Ma Lin 7. Wang Liqin 8. Timo Boll 9. Lin Yun-Ju 10. Desmond Douglas 11. Liu Shiwen 12. Kalinikos Kreanga 13. Stellan Bengston 14. Simon Gauzy 15. Tibor Klampar

Why are you always asking people different questions and not asking yourself? As I have written before, I have not known anyone who comes into a club with a wood with pimples on the outside, under his arm, never A coach who notices after some time that his player is having a hard time with a...

It has been my job for years.

I suspect top players are also financially supported by their own national federation when they travel the world. No idea for how much.

But are they also required to take those hotels? Just because they promote or recommend them doesn't mean they might have to take them? If it is an obligation, that's how you know WTT has a hand in these hotels of course.

When businesspeople or athletes need to travel frequently, it is best to do so through a good and well-known travel agency. Due to their high frequency, they can obtain conditions to rebook their flights for free or for a small fee. An ordinary citizen with only two flights in a year will...

It's not black & white. "Something wrong" is a huge word, your word, not mine. H3 is a inverted rubber with a little different feeling then other inverted rubbers. You like it or not. You gave me a bad example. Grass D.Tecs with or without mouse, that's an other story. This is a rubber for...

Lol, WTT-mafia at its best. Okay, but does that also mean they are obliged to take them?

Don't they have a free choice of hotel then?

I have had to make hotel and plane bookings for other professionals for years. Very often I had to make last-minute changes/adjustments because the sector did not allow me to make reservations 24 hours in advance. Never had any problems adjusting it. It's just who you want to deal with. Even now...

It is not only a problem in table tennis. In darts, too, for example, the calendar is packed, organisers want to attract the best players and have obligations to their sponsors. Now that darts is becoming wildly popular outside the UK too, these guys have to fly halfway across Europe to maintain...